Association between a history of periodontitis and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in Taiwan: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study

• Yi-Da Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Da Wu, Ching-Heng Lin

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Heng Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Da Wu, Ching-Heng Lin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Wen-Cheng Chao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education

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• Tsai-Ling Liao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Der-Yuan Chen,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Hua Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-4587

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